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News
2026.05.07
Much like humans who can get sick when infected by a virus, bacteria have pathogenic challenges of their own-phages. These are viruses which infect and...
News
2026.04.24
Live attenuated vaccines
Principle: a weakened or very similar version of the virus or bacteria is used. This weakened microbe is no longer capable of...
Portrait
2026.03.30
A childhood shaped by science and empathy
Guillemette Masse-Ranson was born in northern France before moving to Greater Paris when she was five. She was...
News
2026.05.05
In the twenty years since the tiger mosquito was first reported in mainland France in 2004, it has conquered four-fifths of the country. How has it been able...
Portrait
2026.02.09
From science fiction to the Institut Pasteur in Paris
At the age of twelve, Molly came across a science fiction novel in which a female scientist was cloned by...
News
2026.01.22
How does legionellosis develop in the early stages of infection? Which of the body's cells enable Legionella pneumophila to develop, and why? Scientists at...
Vidéo
2026.01.12
Did you know that your immune system starts developing before you are even born?
In your body, certain cells called macrophages (literally “big eaters”) work...
News
2025.12.18
Updated on April 16, 2026.
Read the report on the 2025–2026 season for respiratory infections in France (in French), published by French Health Authorities...
Vidéo
2025.11.24
What if we could hack resistant bacteria?
In this video, Didier Mazel, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains how his team is exploring an innovative...
Vidéo
2025.09.23
What if the history of leprosy had to be rewritten?
Nicolás Rascovan, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, reveals a discovery that challenges everything we...